In its effort to control Florida's overpopulation of feral hogs, the state has enlisted some unlikely partners: children.

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After hearing passionate testimony from differing views on the annual county-run deer hunt in South Mountain Reservation, Maplewood's Township Committee voted to go forward with the deer hunt.

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"The Arctic's sea ice pack thawed to its third-lowest summer level on record, up slightly from the seasonal melt of the past two years but continuing an overall decline symptomatic of climate change, U.S. scientists said on Thursday."

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"...climates including Western Europe, the American Atlantic coast, New Zealand, Chile and North Africa will be the greatest effected as the botanical calendar will move strongly out of sync with the seasons with temperature-sensitive plants flowering up to 50 days earlier than n …

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'The team found that only 87 of the 166 sites (52%) had advanced while simultaneously the mean annual local temperatures had increased at 111 of the 166 sites at an average rate of 0.013˚C a year (or 1˚C in 77 years).

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The same things that make Alaska's marine waters among the most productive in the world may also make them the most vulnerable to ocean acidification.

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"Rapid change, contrary to previous opinion, really seems to be happening quite frequently in a number of locations around the world," Pergams said.

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"In discussions about climate change, we tend to focus on the carbon emissions of an individual over his or her lifetime," said Paul Murtaugh, an OSU professor of statistics. "Those are important issues and it's essential that they should be considered.

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"Once I was talking about eating our way down marine food webs with Daniel Pauly" — director of the University of British Columbia's fisheries center — "and he said, 'One day we'll be eating jellyfish.' It was meant to be a joke," said Pikitch.

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"A San Francisco teenager has been diagnosed with a strain of swine flu that is resistant to the common antiviral drug Tamiflu - an important milestone in the pandemic's evolution."

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On June 11, 2009, the World Health Organization (WHO) raised the worldwide pandemic alert level to Phase 6 in response to the ongoing global spread of the novel influenza A (H1N1) virus. A Phase 6 designation indicates that a global pandemic is underway.

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"Bonobos, or pygmy chimpanzees, arguably our closest relative, may have been hunted so extensively that the survival of the species is at risk, World Wildlife Fund warns."

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"Poachers in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) threaten the existence of the largest remaining continuous population of chimpanzees in the world."

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Is there room for humans in nature's laboratory as the Galápagos Islands are known? Ecuador's government is trying to control migration because overpopulation is one of the reasons UNESCO placed the islands on the list of endangered world heritage sites.

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While the Global Economy struggles with financial catastrophe, earth moves on, and faster than scientific projections had foreseen, apparently. Polar and glacial melting is accelerating and ocean levels will likely rise by 1 meter (39.4 inches) over the next 92 years.

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Roughly one-fourth of the nation's kindergartners are Latino, evidence of an accelerating trend that will see minority children become the majority by 2023.

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A Canadian has figured it all out.

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Hmmm, let's review. Both Jolie and Suleman have long dark hair, oversized lips and fair skin, and there's been more than one comment about their striking resemblance. Both were born and raised in L.A. Both are 33 years old, born in 1975.

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What kind of world are we leaving our children?

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"Critics argue that species disappear and new ones emerge all the time. That's true, if you're speaking in terms of millennia.

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Al Gore is telling our legislators that we need carbon caps.

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Obviously, the official cause of the crash won't be declared for a while. But nobody doubts that it was what pilots call a "bird strike" - just as nobody doubts that the guilty birds were Canada geese. That's because Canada geese are everywhere - and they're out of control.

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Why settle for hating your own country or your own ethnic group when you can hate your own species? VHEMT stands for Voluntary Human Extinction Movement. Their goal: the eradication of the human race.

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An Arkansas woman has given birth to her 18th child. Michelle Duggar delivered the baby girl by Caesarean section Thursday at Mercy Medical Center in Rogers. The baby, named Jordyn-Grace Makiya Duggar, weighed 7 pounds, 3 ounces and was 20 inches long.

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On a planet that is so markedly divided between the 'haves' and the 'have nots', population growth is often seen as a massive problem. At the end of 2007 it was announced that the planets population had reached approximately 6.7 billion people.

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